Free Database tiers
39 free tiers, safest first. Each one shows the limits, whether it needs a card, and how fresh the data is.
Free tierWhat you get freeRiskCardFreshness
Google Cloud · Database
50,000 reads/day · 20,000 writes/day · 20,000 deletes/day
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
MongoDB · Database
512 MB storage (M0 cluster) · Shared RAM and vCPU · 32MB of sort memory
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Supabase · Database
500 MB database & 1 GB file storage · 50,000 monthly active users · 500,000 edge function invocations/month
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Supabase · Database
500 MB database storage · 1 GB file storage · 50,000 monthly active users
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Appwrite · Database
2 projects (shared resources) · 75,000 monthly active users · 2 GB storage, 50 MB file size limit
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 2 Oct 2026
Cloudflare · Database
5 GB total storage (500 MB max per database) · 5,000,000 rows read/day · 100,000 rows written/day
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Neon · Database
Up to 100 projects · 100 CU-hours of compute per project/month · 0.5 GB storage per project
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Pinecone · Database
Up to 2 GB database storage · Up to 2M write units/month · Up to 1M read units/month
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Qdrant · Database
Single-node cluster: 0.5 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 4 GB disk
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Redis · Database
Up to 30 MB storage · Single database, shared cloud deployment · Best-effort SLA, community support
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Upstash · Database
500,000 commands/month · 256 MB data size · 10 GB bandwidth/month
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Google Cloud · Database
1 GB storage · 100 simultaneous connections · 10 GB/month downloads (360 MB/day)
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Aiven · Database
1 CPU, 1 GB RAM per VM (PostgreSQL Free plan) · 1 GB total storage (PostgreSQL Free plan) · Cannot choose cloud or region on the Free plan
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
DB Designer · Database
2 database models · 10 tables per model · Full feature access (team invites, export, all diagram tools)
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
DrawDB · Database
No account required · All SQL dialects: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle · Import/export as SQL, DBML, JSON
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
IBM · Database
1 GB storage (Lite plan) · 20 lookups/sec · 10 writes/sec
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Sheetson · Database
1,000 rows per sheet · Unlimited spreadsheets · Unmetered requests (shared rate limit)
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Upstash · Database
1 free vector database · 200M vector-dimensions capacity (max 1,536 dimensions) · 1 GB total data
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Weaviate · Database
1 cluster per user · 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk · 1 collection, up to 3 tenants
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Zilliz · Database
5 GB storage · 2.5 million vCUs per month (vCU = compute unit for reads and writes)
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Cloudflare · Database
100,000 database queries per day · Resets daily at 00:00 UTC · Pooling and caching included
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
IBM · Database
200 MB storage · 5 connections · 1 instance per account
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Neo4j · Database
1 free instance per account · $0, for learning and exploring graphs
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Cloudflare · Database
30 million queried vector dimensions per month · 5 million stored vector dimensions
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Couchbase · Database
1 small cluster (about 1 node, about 8 GB) · SQL++, key-value, search, and vector search · Mobile sync included
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Nhost · Database
1 active project at a time · 1 GB database · 1 GB storage
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
UpstashChanged
Upstash · Database
500,000 Redis commands/month · 256 MB Redis data size · 10 GB Redis bandwidth/month
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Cloudflare · Database
1 GB storage · 100,000 reads/day · 1,000 writes/deletes/day
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Turso · Database
100 databases · 5 GB storage · 500 million rows read/month
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
CockroachDB CloudChanged
CockroachDB · Database
30-day free trial · $400 in credit · No card required for Standard edition
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Convex · Database
1M function calls per month · 0.5 GB database storage, 1 GB database I/O · 1 GB file storage
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
PingCAP · Database
25 GiB row storage · 25 GiB column storage · 250 million Request Units per month
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
EverSQLChanged
EverSQL (Aiven) · Database
Free during Early Availability, no stated query cap · Manual SQL + metadata upload only (no live database connection) · PostgreSQL and MySQL supported
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Prisma · Database
100,000 database operations per month · 0.5 GB storage · Unlimited data transfer
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Azure · Database
100,000 vCore-seconds/month serverless compute per database · 32 GB data storage per database · Up to 10 free General Purpose databases per subscription
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Oracle Cloud · Database
2 Autonomous AI Database instances per account · 20 GB storage per database (fixed, cannot be scaled) · 1 OCPU per database (fixed, cannot be scaled)
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
AWS · Database
25 GB of data storage (Always Free, per Region, per account) · 25 provisioned Write Capacity Units · 25 provisioned Read Capacity Units
Billing risk: Medium
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · Database
1,000 RU/s provisioned throughput · 25 GB storage · One free database account per Azure subscription
Billing risk: Medium
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · Database
750 hours/month B1MS compute · 32 GB storage · 32 GB backup storage
Billing risk: Medium
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026